The request for a 'like' button has been misunderstood in my opinion ...

I believe members requested an internal 'like' button next to posts (that is not linked to facebook). So that you could 'like' posts to show your appreciation of the post rather than posting:

"I agree with Salamanda"

or

"Well written post Threedogs"

We want to show our appreciation for individual posts at the click of the button ... we don't want to share forum links on facebook. It is a misleading icon anyhow as it should be the facebook 'share' icon as opposed to the facebook 'like' button

I don't really understand all this, so don't want to get into a heated debate. I suppose one can just ignore the button - is that right??

I tend to agree with cheetah2111 - in fact, I have often thought a "like" (like a tick) would be a good idea, to save writing a full response to a post, but keeping it within the Forum, on the relevant topic etc.

Hipptrags .. the like button is there and all and sundry can press it so a post you really didn't want to go further than the forum will so the whole wild world can see .. and thts what I am not too happy about. I avoid Facebook like the plague .

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Your post will not be all over Facebook. What will be on Facebook is a link back to the thread that contains your post on the forum. The only people who will see the link are friends of the person who has linked back. This is no different to anyone logging onto Facebook and linking to a thread in forum.

This happens now, I've done it myself so that my non SANParks-loving friends can see trip reports and the anti-poaching campaigns on here.

This forum is public. There is only one board on here that is restricted to members, Indaba. Anyone at any time can see what you post. And try typing "Kruger National Park" into Google and the third or fourth result will be SANParks.org - the parent website for this forum. We are easily found, we are not an isolated community.

This forum is public. There is only one board on here that is restricted to members, Indaba.

I know that this is a bit off topic, but just today barryels in a PM told me that the Stiffnecks forum is restricted to forum members only. Is this NOT the case?

And even tho this forum is public, I still totally object to the FB "like" button that might link any post of mine to FB without my wishing it to be "shared" there. It's one thing for someone to read a post of mine on the forum and quite another to have links to it posted on FB. I also think that this detracts from the forum. I, for one, might seriously considered resigning from this forum and requesting that all my posts be deleted rather than having my posts/opinions shared on FB without either my knowledge or my consent.

I seem to offend people without trying (much ). I have been unfriended on FB today by a tetchy forumite.

FB needs your name and what is the point of having a forum handle, which for courtesy and good procedure should be used here and not your name, if your name is splashed all around.

Your name won't be splashed around. There will be nothing that is electronically sent from this forum that will link your FB name with your forum name or vice versa. Unless of course you signed up to this forum with your real name.

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